finally

i feel like the summer-me is coming out to play.  

i'm not sure what to think or write about june and july.  

i tend to conceptualize the time period in list form:

living room floor - check

kitties born - check

wedding 1 - check

dental work - check-ish

char and jane's birthdays - check, check

respite - check

visitors - check, check, check...

wedding 2 - check

flu and colds - check

the hunger games - check (out my messy house!)

and although the list stuff continues into august,

gary's surgery - check

deck railing - checking.

find kitty homes - check pending

i'm starting to feel like it's ok to breathe a little

and play a little at the lake and the library

and like i have time to take pictures of my kids 

and make fruit tarts

and then share them with my neighbors.

this makes me happy.   

this evening i decided, i reeeeally need august to be a reeeeally long month.

ok.

and i need to go to the beach.